Jobs and Opps at Kindred Spirit, The House, PoliticsHome, Gay Times and More 🥵
Also! Take a break and keep cool 🧊
Currently, I’m writing this message to you from my kitchen table. I’ve decamped from my ‘office’ upstairs as it’s too hot. I’ve deployed every trick in the book to cool down – icy water bottles, microfibre towels, a fan over a bucket of ice. But there’s only so much you can do when it’s 40° outside and you live in an old Victorian terrace.
It perhaps goes without saying that this week’s newsletter opener will be shorter than most – I don’t believe anyone should be forced in this heat unless their job is absolutely necessary. Maybe I’m more up for a fight because it’s hot, but I’ve always felt our industry is particularly bad when it comes to presenteeism and making sensible accommodations. There will always be journalists who do need to work in the field and in the office, but, for the love of god, I’m asking any managers reading this to ask themselves what really is necessary, and what accommodations you can offer.
For everyone else out there, stay cool as best as you can and, when you’re feeling a little less frazzled, we’ve made a couple of our climate-change and solutions journalism-related workshops open access – check out our SoJo and Global Reporting chat, an introduction to climate reporting and a Q&A with Climate Home News. You can also read our guide on better climate reporting and a follow-up on best practice.
🚨 [EVENT] How To Pivot Your Journalism Career
It’s your last chance to grab a ticket to our event tomorrow with professional career coach Winnie Tang. This is a practical session for people looking to break into journalism, pivot from another career, or change their beat/focus. We’ll run through strategy, goal setting, and how to overcome blockers in your career.
🚨 [AD] Remote Music Industry Reporter Role Closes Soon!
The music business is a big deal – and so are the trends, finances and investors behind it. So move fast – there are just a couple of days left to apply to the reporter/senior reporter role at Music Business Worldwide. They need a journalist to cover news, analysis and interviews and will pay up to £32,000pa. It’s a fully remote role, and you can be based anywhere across the globe.
At A Glance: 🚨 Closes soon 🏡 Remote Working 🎪 Event 🌎 Global Opportunity 🆓 Free
BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey have an entry-level gig going for a journalism producer who will help produce their live evening shows. This one is Band C, which starts from £25,670pa.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales is looking for a web content assistant to work on high-quality web content and it pays about £25,000pa. And yes they do shorten their name to ICAEW, thank god.
🚨 Last call for some gigs with Tindle Newspapers. They’re looking for a multimedia journalist in Liskeard, Cornwall who will be paid £18,200pa and be out and about in the community. There’s also a community news reporter gig in Aberystwyth, where you’ll be paid £18,500pa to dig into the community.
🚨 There’s a really nice gig here, which we’re told would suit someone just starting out. South East London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have a role for a content creator who will make high quality videos, audio, and graphics. It pays £27,157-29,859pa.
🏡 Want to write about wellness? Kindred Spirit magazine are looking for an editorial and social media assistant to join the team and they say it’s perfect for someone just starting out. Pays up to £24,000pa.
There’s another opening at Henley Standard for a reporter. They’re very open to people applying for their first job and pay starts from £18,5000pa.
The House has an opening for a political journalism fellowship, which looks like an amazing opp. It lasts for four weeks and pays London Living Wage.
There’s also an entry-level journalism gig across Dods (so The House, Politics Home, Civil Service World etc) that’s full-time. It pays £25,000pa and you’ll focus on leading the online conversation.
🏡 Gay Times have a junior writer role open to write daily news, feature,s and interviews. It’s location flexible and pays £22,000pa.
Deadline Digital are looking for a video journalist to both edit and interview for videos, live streams, and podcasts – it pays £21,000pa.
🌎 🏡 🚨 It’s a Friday deadline for the reporter/senior reporter role with Music Business Worldwide. They’re paying £27-32,000pa and you can be based wherever suits you.
A decent few BBC jobs this week. There are journalist jobs at BBC North West, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Bristol and with BBC London. They’re also looking for two journos for BBC News Labs, who help to create innovative and immersive storytelling for their news stories. All Band C, so £25,670-50,313pa.
There’s also a very fun one working on BBC Radio Leeds Introducing, looking at the best of West Yorkshire’s music scene as a producer. Pays the same banding as above.
🚨 Last chance to apply to work with our friends at News Associates in Manchester. They have an opening for a journalism tutor (you’ll need at least two years’ of experience) and it pays up to £28,000pa.
🌎 🏡 🚨 Also limited time to apply to the senior investigative editor role at openDemocracy. It pays £55,000pa and you’ll be working on equity-focused investigations across the globe.
Which? is looking for a senior researcher to join their investigations team, focused on health. It pays £30-37,000pa and you only need to go into the office five days each month.
The Yorkshire Post are looking for a political editor to drive their coverage and lead their team. Pays around £40,000pa.
Saga are looking for a digital content editor to work across all their online content, which is a pretty broad brush including cruises, insurance and a magazine. Pays up to £34,000pa.
C21Media are looking for a senior reporter to look after ents stories, where you could find yourself interviewing heads of Hollywood studios. Pays £32-38,000pa.
The Church of England are looking for a reporter for a new project and publication, called The Centre for Cultural Witness. It pays £32,787pa, which will rise to £35,255pa after your probation.
And, finally, the Victoria and Albert Museum are looking for an email marketing manager to look after their emails. Pays £30-40,000pa.
🚨 Kya Buller is guest-editing a new series for gal-dem called “the passage that changed me”, exploring powerful words that left their mark on you. The deadline is next Monday.
The BBC have opened their talent pool for freelancers to work on their factual podcasts. You can see more details over this way.
Megan Wallace is now the features editor at Feel Good Woo at ITV and is looking for your ideas across wellness and culture.
Jess Austin at Metro.co.uk is looking for your dating stories for their series “So, How Did It Go?”. And yes, they’re looking for good, bad, and everything in-between.
Emily Shackleton, also from Metro.co.uk, is looking for freelancers to take on shifts on their audience team. Think push notifications, platform pitching, content creation, and curation.
Fancy a well-paid copywriting gig to balance the books? This one pays up to £324 a day to work with HSBC.
The Fence Magazine is looking for pitches on all sorts – everything from high fashion to London’s suburbs, literary libel, and low culture.
Christmas is here in 40 degree heat! Arielle Tchiprout is looking for first-person health stories from women who are 35+ for Hearst’s monthly magazines. And yes, a festive hook is needed.
Kiera Fields from Insider is on the lookout for pitches about working in high-stakes environments. Send ideas this way.
Vicki Turk is looking for pitches for the rest of the year at Rest of World. Think reported, longform narrative about tech outside the west. Rates start at US$1pw.
Dirt Magazine are looking for your pitches about entertainment and television. Their standard rates start at US$0.50.
This is an interesting one – Long Now focuses on memory, deep time, and the long-term future. They’re looking for essays and reported pieces.
Got travel stories? Nikki Vargas is now a senior editor at Fodor’s Travel and looking for your ideas.
Anne Helen Peterson is looking for pitches for monthly guest interviews for Culture Study. Here’s the kind of thing you might want to pitch.
One day, istg I will manage to get a pitch placed in Positive News. Shoot your own shot here; they want your solutions-based stories for October.
And, finally, Tom Simonite is looking for your business coverage pitches at WIRED UK.
🚨 The deadline for the Frieze New Writers Programme has been extended to this Sunday. It’s for anyone looking to break into arts writing, and you’ll get a three-day intensive course and support.
🎪 🆓 Our very own Hannah Bradfield was joined by Zesha Saleem and Michele Theil for a quick half an hour panel with our friends at ResponseSource, looking at the changing nature of journalism and PR. Watch it back here.
🎪 This really is your last chance to get tickets to our event tomorrow. Join us for an insightful hour to help your plan your career pivot into or across journalism, with plenty of exercises to get you thinking and moving.
🎪 We also have an excellent panel coming up around working in an overwhelmingly white and middle-class industry. Join the discussion here.
👩🏽💻 And, finally, this is our last event we promise! We are really excited to launch a weekly online co-working session with our team, where together we can get shit done. Come and check it out this way.
🚨 It’s your last chance to apply to the National Geographic Traveller Travel Writing Competition for 2022. Submit 500 words by Sunday and you could win a cruise of Greenland, plus the chance to write for the title.
The Rory Peck Awards are now open for freelance journalists and filmmakers working anywhere in the world. Apply by the end of the month to win a £1,000 prize.
The Asian Media Awards are also open again! Nominate yourself or someone else across their six journalism categories.
🚨 Thursday is the deadline for the Google News Equity Fund, giving cash to organisations that serve underrepresented voices.
🚨 This week is also the last chance to apply for the George Viner Memorial Bursary, which funds for journalism training for people of colour.
🚨 There’s also a midday Monday deadline for the Roundhouse Film Fund for autumn, which offers £1,000 production budget, equipment loans, and mentoring to get a short film of yours made.
You’ve Made It This Far… Can You Help Us Keep Going?
Journo Resources is entirely self-funded – but it’s getting tougher. Everything we do is currently put together with just one full-time member of staff. And we need your help to keep doing what we do. Just a small donation of £4 a month can make a huge difference to what we’re able to do and the number of people we can support.